{I like to walk around amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.} (g.Santayana)

"she had grown wary" ... "Assumptions that the earth would be there to meether foot when she put it down, or that her body would remain upright without expressly willing it were no longer certain, & she found herself hesitating more than she used to, as though to give the world a chance to announce its true intentions."

~ an excerpt from the story "Leap" in the book "Alone With You" by Marisa Silver (via Mitza)